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AUNOIS  HISTORICAL  SIISYIT 


5  )cenic  and  Historic  Illinois 


uic  le  to   One  TKousand  Features  of  Scenic,  Historic 
I  and  Curious  Interest  in  Illinois 

w^itn  ADraKam  Lincoln  Sites  and  Monuments 
Black  Hawk  War  Sites 


Arranged  by  Cities  and  Villages 


CHARLES  E.  BROWN 

AutKor,  Scenic  and  Historic  Wisconsin 

Editor,  TKe  Wisconsin  ArcKeologist 

The  MusKroom  Book 


First  Edition 


Published  by 

C.  E.  BROWN 

201  1  CKadbourne  Avenue 
Madison,  Wisconsin 


Copyrighted,  1928 


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FOREWORD 

This  booklet  is  issued  with  the  expectation  that 
prove  of  ready  reference  service  to  those  who 
motor  in  Illinois.  Detailed  information  of  the  Ian 
monuments,  etc.  listed  may  be  obtained  from  th' 
cations  of  the  Illinois  Department  of  Conse 
Illinois  State  Historical  Society,  State  Geological 
Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  Chicago  H. 
Society,  Springfield  Chamber  of  Commerce,  an 
local  sources. 

Tourists  and  other  visitors  are  requested  to  re 
that  all  of  the  landmarks  and  monuments  mentior 
many  others  not  included  in  this  publication,  are 
lie  heritage  and  under  the  protection  of  the  state 
the  citizens  of  the  localities  in  which  they  occ 
the  Indian  mounds  some  are  permanently  pr' 
The  preservation  of  others  is  encouraged.  Tl 
ploration,  when  desirable,  should  be  undertaken 
ganizations  and  institutions  interested  in  and  i 
equipped  for  such  investigations.  Too  great  a 
the  States'  archaeological  history  and  to  educat 
already  resulted  from  the  digging*  in  such  an 
Indian  landmarks  by  relic  hunters.  The  mutile 
scenic  and  historic  monuments  all  persons  shoul 
in  preventing. 

The  Author  of  this  booklet  gratefully  ackno 
the  assistance  given  in  its  preparation  by  various 
zations  and  friends  in  Illinois. 


SCENIC  AND  HISTORIC  ILLINOIS 

ide   to   the   Scenic,   Archaeological,   Historical,    Industri- 
ous and  Other  Landmarks  and  Memorials  in  Illinois 

Arranged  by  Cities  and  Villages 

.    raham  Lincoln  Sites  and  Monuments  are  starred    (*) 

A 

ingdon 

Hedding"  College. 

Center  of  mouse-trap  manufacture,  potteries. 
A  bany — 

Indian  mounds  on  Mississippi  river  ridge,  also  south- 
west of  town. 
Home  of  Steve  Hanks,  famous  raftsman.     He  piloted 
the   first   log  raft   down   the   Mississippi   from   Still- 
water, in  1844. 
A    ido — 

Rich  bituminous  coal  fields. 

A    bion — 

English   settlement,    1817. 

Park    House,    the    home    of    George    Flower,    English 
colonist   and  abolitionist. 

exis 

Clydesdale  horses. 
lendale — 

Gas  fields. 
ta  Pass — 

Bald  Knob. 

ton — 

Indian  Piasa  Bird  once  painted  on  Mississippi  bluff 
north  of  town.     Seen  by  Father  Marquette,  1$^3. 

Elijah  Parish  Lovejoy  monument  in  cemetery.  "Fear- 
less forerunner  of  Emancipation  and  anti-slave 
editor  of  pre-Civil  War  days." 

The  Lovejoy  printing  press. 

*Site  of  Lincoln  and  Douglas  Debate,  October  15,  1858. 

Illinois  State  Hospital. 

Home  of  Col.  Stephen  H.  Long  of  Long's  Expedition. 

Home  of  William  McAdams,  pioneer  Illinois  archeolo- 
gist. 

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Anna — 

Famous   fruit  and  vegetable   center. 
Illinois  State  Hospital. 

Antioch — 

Lotus  beds  in  Grass  Lake.  . 

Apple   River — 

Canyon  of  Apple  River.  i 

Powers  Mound,   one  mile   east. 

On  old  Frink  and  Walker  stage  line,  Chicago  to  Galen. 
Site  of  vanished  town   of  Millville.      Once  had   1,00 
inhabitants.     Marked. 

Arenzville — 

German  agricultural  community. 

Argo — 

Stone  quarries. 
Arlington  Heights — 

Seed  onion  plantation  center. 
Home  of  Dr.  Bruce  T.  Best,  naturalist. 
Elk  Grove  Forest  Preserve. 
Aroma  Park — 

"The  Cathedral  of  the  Prairie,"  giant  cottonwood  wit 
a  history.     On  Alice  Payne  farm  on  the  west  bar 
of  the  Kankakee. 
Athens — 

"Athens"  marble  quarries.     Coal  mines. 
Atlas — 

Settled    by    Col.    William    Ross    and    brothers,    1819. 
First  settlement  in  Pike  County. 
Atwood   Ridge — 

Stands  of  chestnut  oak  on  ridge. 

Augusta — 

Potter's  clay  pits.     Coal  mines. 

Aurora  ("The  Double  A  City") — 

Site  of  early  Indian  trading  post. 

Aurora  College.     Jennings  Colleg'e. 

Central  States  Fair  and  Exposition. 

C.  B.  &  Q.  railroad  shops. 

Rev.  E.  P.  Wheeler,  authority  on  Indian  history. 

Niagara  dolomite  outcrops  on  bank  of  Fox  River  south 

of  the  city. 
Mooseheart,  National  Orphans'  Home,  Loyal  Order  cf 

Moose. 

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Averyville — 

Site  of  Indian  village  at  the  foot  of  Lake  Peoria,  visited 
by  LaSalle  and  Tonti,  1680. 

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Baileyville — 

C.  K.  Carpenter,  taxidermist. 
Batavia — 

Extensive  limestone  quarries. 
B.  E.   Sperry,  archeologist. 
bath — 

"Post  Oak  Flats"  south  of  town. 
Beardsto'wn — 

Illinois  River.     Flood  control  wall  and  levees. 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Base  of  supplies  for   Illinois  volunteers,   Black   Hawk 

War. 
*City  hall   (old  Cass  County  court  house)   where  Lin- 
coln defended  "Duff"  Armstrong.     Here  Stephen  A. 

Douglas  made  his  first  political  speech. 
*Site  where  Lincoln  was  made  a  captain  in  the  Black 

Hawk  War. 
Belleville — 

St.  Clair  County  historical  museum,  Carnegie  Library. 
Civil  War  collection,  Dietz  Memorial  Hall. 
Turners'  outdoor  natatorium. 
U.  S.  Army  Balloon  and  airplane  training  school,  Scott 

Field. 
Numerous  coal  mines. 
Belvidere — 

("Beautiful   to   See") 

Belvidere   Park,      Marshall   Beach. 

Dotys  Flats  on  the  Kishwaukee  River. 

National  Sewing  Machine  Co. 

Rich    agricultural    region.      Holstein,    Shorthorn    and 

Hereford  herds. 
Bement — 

*  Bryant  House  where  Lincoln  and  Douglas  made  their 

formal  agreement  to  hold  Joint  Debates  in  Illinois, 

July    29,    1858. 
*Here    Lincoln    delivered    his   famous    "Lost    Speech,*' 

1856.      Monument   erected. 
F.  W.  Aldrich,  archeologist. 
3enton — 

Coal  mining  region. 

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Berwyn — 

Home  of  Elton  R.  Shaw,  writer.     O.  M.  Schantz,  nat- 
uralist. 

Bernadotte — 

Scenery  along  Spoon  River. 

Bloomington — 

("Charm  City  of  the  Corn  Country") 

Illinois  State  Normal  School. 

Illinois  Wesleyan  University-Powell  Museum. 

Soldiers'  IVlemorial  Building.     Coliseum. 

Historical  museum  in  court  house.      (McLean  County 
Historical  Society). 

Scene  of  annual  Passion  Play,  April  and  May. 

Home  of  Ex-Governor  Joseph  Wilson  Fifer. 

Former  home  of  Gen.  Giles  A.  Smith,  Civil  War  soldier. 

T.  E.  Wood,  Japanese  pottery  specialist. 
Blue   Island — 

Steel  mills. 
Braceville — 

Coal  mines. 
Brimfield — 

Coal  mines. 

Bristol — 

Boyhood  home  of  Maj.  Gen.  John  McA.  Schofield. 
"Broad  Lands"    (Champaign  County) — 

Famous  Sullivant  Farm  of  20,000  acres,  once  owned 
by  John  T.  Alexander,  "cattle  king-  of  Illinois." 

Brownsville — 

Birthplace  of  Maj.  Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  famous  Civil 

War  soldier. 
Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Burbonnais — 

Quaint   Canadian  town.      Settled  by  Noel   LeVasseur, 
first  white  settler  in  Kankakee  County,  1832. 

Bureau — 

Group  of  Indian  mounds  on  the  Illinois  River. 

Byron — 

Mrs.  Medill  McCormick's  farm. 


Cable — 

Coal  mines. 


Cahokia — 

First  permanent  white  settlement  in  Illinois. 

Site  of  French  mission  of  the  Tamaroas,  1700. 

Site  of  murder  of  the  famous  Ottawa  chief,  Pontiac, 

by  a  Kaskaskia  Indian,  1769. 
Trappist  monks  erected  a  monastery  on  Monks  Mound, 

1804. 
Gahokia  ^Mounda,  state  parit.     MonlcB  -er  Great  Caholiki 

Mound. 
Church  built  in  1799,  oldest  Catholic  church  in  Illinois. 
Mansion   House   of   Nicholas   Jarrot,    1799,   first   brick 

dwelling  in  the  state. 

Cairo — 

Important  Civil  War  military  supplies  base. 

U.  S.  Marine  Hospital. 

National  Cemetery. 

Cairo  bridge  across  the   Ohio,  longest  metallic  bridge 

in  the  world.     Built  1887-89.     Length  20,461  feet. 
Safford  Memorial  Library. 
Indian  flint  quarry,  one  mile  north. 

Calumet — 

Sherwin-Williams  Paint  Co.  "largest  paint  and  varnish 
factory  in  the  world." 

Canton — • 

In  the  famous  "Corn  Belt."     Coal  mines. 

C apron — 

Drain  tile  manufacture. 

Carbon  Hill — 

Coal  mines. 

Carbondale — 

Southern  Illinois  State  Normal  School. 
Muddy  River  coal  mines. 
Grave  of  Governor  A.  M.  Jenkins,  1861. 
S.  C.  Chandler,  entomologist. 

Carey — 

Mineral  springs. 
Carlinville — 

Blackburn  University   (Presbyterian),  1857. 

Governor  John  M.  A.  Palmer   (1869-73)   buried  here. 

Home  of  Gen.  John  Logan,  Civil  War  Soldier. 
Carlyle — 

Gas  fields  northeast  of  town. 

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Carthage — 

Carthage  College  (Lutheran)   1871. 

Jail  where  Joseph  and  Hyrum  Smith,  Mormon  leaders, 

were  killed,  1844. 
Indian  mounds  on  Mississippi  River  banks. 

Carrollton — 

Home  of  Gen.  Thomas  Carlin   (1838-42),  and  of  Gen. 
Thomas  Carlin,  noted  Civil  War  soldier. 

Centerville — 

Coal  mining  district. 

Centralia — 

In  the  ''Fruit  Belt." 

Coal  mines,  oil  wells. 

Former  home   of   Gen.    Erastus   N.    Bates,    Civil   War 

soldier. 
Mills  Creek  Indian  flint  quarries  near  town. 

Champaign — 

University  of  Illinois,  1868. 

*Lincoln  and  Douglas  spoke  here  on  different  days  in 

1858,  in  the  **Goosepond"  Congregational  Church. 
Lorado  Taft  monument,  West  Side  park.     Also  Indian 

fountain. 
Garwood  Old  Ladies'  Home. 
Soldiers'  monument,  Mt.  Hope  Cemetery. 
Old  Ohio  tavern  on  the  Bloomington  road. 
F.  C.  Nelson,  entomologist. 

Chandlersville — 

*Platted  by  Abraham  Lincoln,  then  surveyor,  1838. 
Home  of  Gen.  Chas.  A.  Lippincott,  Civil  War  soldier. 

Charleston — 

Illinois  State  Teachers'  College. 
*Site  of  Lincoln-Douglas  Debate,  Sept.  18,  1858. 
Mary  A.    (Rice)    Livermore,  reformer  and  philanthro- 
pist, taught  in  local  seminary. 

Chenoa — 

Fruit  farms,  coal  mines. 

Chester    (near  Kaskaskia)  — 

Old  Fort   Gage   earthworks. 

Grave   of   Shadrach   Bond,    first   governor   of   Illinois, 

(1818-22)   in  Pioneer  Cemetery.     Overlooks  site  of 

Kaskaskia. 
Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary.     Illinois  State  Hospital. 

8. 


Old  Court  House. 

Capt.  J.  W.  Meredith,  collection  of  steamboat  photo- 
graphs. 

Chicago — 

Greatest  railway  center  in  the  world. 

Site    visited    by    Father    Marquette    and    Louis    Joliet, 

1673. 
Site  of  Miami  and  Potawatomi  Indian  villages. 
Site  of  John  Kinzie  Indian  trading  post,   1804. 
Fort  Dearborn  built,   1803-1804. 

Lincoln  Park — 

The  Academy  of  Sciences,  the  first  natural  history 
museum  in  the  west.     The  Zoo.     The  Aquarium. 

*Abraham  Lincoln  Statue  by  St.   Gaudens. 

Eugene  Field  Memorial  by  Edward  McCartan. 

La  Salle,  Hans  Christian  Anderson,  Goethe,  Governor 
Oglesby  and  other  statues.  Alarm  Group  and  "A 
Signal  of  Peace"  monuments. 

Chicago  Yacht  Club.  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Sani- 
tarium. 

Humboldt  Park — 

Lief  Erickson,  Kosciusko  and  other  statues. 

Garfield  Park — 

♦Conservatory,  the  largest  in  the  United  States.  Lin- 
coln Statue  by  Mulligan.     Discovery  Statue. 

Grant  Park — 

Field  Museum  of  Natural  History.     The  Art  Institute. 

Stadium-  Soldier's  Field. 
Buckingham    Fountain.       "The    Spirit    of    the    Great 

Lakes"  fountain  by  Lorado  Taft. 
John    A.    Logan    statue    by    St.    Gaudens.      Alexander 

Hamilton  statue. 

Washington  Park — 

''Fountain  of  Time"  by  Lorado  Taft.  Washington 
statue. 

Jackson    Park — 

Site  of  Worlds'  Columbian  Exposition,  1893. 
Cahokia    Court    House,    first    court    house    in    Illinoir. 

Columbus    Caravel. 
Columbus,    Douglas,    Marquette,    McKinley,    Sherman, 

Portage,  Gage  and  other  parks. 
*Douglas    Monument-Tomb    of    Stephen    A.    Douglas. 

Lake  Front  and  35th  Street. 

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Marquette  Monument  by  Herman  A.  MacNeil.    Marshall 

Boulevard. 
Illinois  Centennial  Monument.      Logan   Square. 
Fort    Dearborn    Massacre    Monument.      Lake    at    18th 

Street. 
Haymarket   Riot   Monument. 
Municipal  Pier.     Lake  end  of  Grand  Avenue. 
Chicago  Municipal  Airport.     63rd  and  Cicero  Avenue. 
Coliseum.     Auditorium  seats  14,000  persons.     1513  S. 

Wabash    Avenue. 
University  of  Chicago.     58th  Street  and  Ellis  Avenue. 
Armour  Institute  of  Technology.     300  Federal  Street. 
DePaul  University.      1010  Webster  Avenue. 
Lewis    Institute.       Madison    at    Roby    Street. 
Loyola  University.     Loyola  Avenue  and  Sheridan  Road. 
McCormick  Theological  Seminary. 
Chicago    Historical    Society-Museum.      Dearborn    and 

Ontario  Streets. 
Chicago  Public  Library.     Washington  Street  and  Michi- 
gan Avenue. 
John  Crerar  Library.     86  East  Randolph  Street. 
Newberry  Library.     Clark  Street  and  Walton  Place. 
Tribune   Tower.      Wrigley   Building.      Masonic  Temple 

Building. 
Hull  House.     Halsted  and  Polk  Streets. 
Ghetto.     Halstead  and  Jefferson  Streets. 
Elks'  Memorial.     Lake  View  Avenue. 
Union  Passenger  Station.     Northwestern  Station. 
Chicago  State  Hospital.     Cook  County  Hospital.     Pres- 
byterian Hospital.     Alexian  Brothers  Hospital. 
Sears    Roebuck    &    Company.      Montgomery    Ward    & 

Company. 
Union  Stock  Yards,     47th  and  Halstead  Streets. 
International  Harvester  Works.     26th  Street  and  South 

Western  Avenue. 
Western    Electric    Company.    22nd    Street    and    South 

Cicero  Avenue. 
Pullman  Car  Works.     111th  Street  and  Cottage  Grove 

Avenue. 
White  City  Amusement  Park.     63rd  Street  and  South 

Park  Avenue. 
Potter  Palmer  Residence.     Lake   Shore  Drive. 
Cubs  Park.     White  Sox  Park. 
Board  of  Trade.     Largest  grain  market  in  the  world. 

LaSalle  Street  and  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 

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Drake,  Ambassador,  Edgewater  Beach  and  other  hotels. 

Rainbo  Gardens.     Lawrence  and  Ashland  Avenues. 

Graceland  and  Rosehill  Cemeteries. 

Beverly  Hills,   Broadview,   Caldwell,   Calumet  Portage, 
George     Rogers     Clark,     Riverside     Woods,     Steel, 
Thatcher   Woods  and   Wolf   Lake   Forest   Preserves. 
Chillecothe 

Important  grain  shipping  center. 

American  lotus  beds.     Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 
Circleville 

"Band  mill,"   used   as  a  fort  during  the   Black   Hawk 
War,  1832. 

Peter  Cartwright,  noted  backwoods  preacher,  delivered 
his  first  sermon  in  this  vicinity,  1832. 
Coal   City — 

Large  coal  mines. 
Colchester — 

Coal  mining  center. 
Collinsville — 

Old  town,  settled  in  1817.     Coal  mines. 

Coltonville 

*Here    Lincoln,    Jefferson    Davis   and    Zachary    Taylor 
met  in  1832  to  confer  about  the  Black  Hawk  War 
campaign. 
Council  Hill — 

Site  of  Indian  councils.  Black  Hawk  War  period. 

Site  of  first  lead  blast  furnace  in  district. 

Old   Brandon  tavern    (about   1828)    near  village.      On 
old  stage  line  between  Chicago  and   Galena. 
Crystal    Lake 

P.    E.    Bertram,    ornithologist. 


Dallas — 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 
Danville — 

Site  of  Piankeshaw  Indian  village,  1750-1824. 

Site  of  Dan  Beckwith's  trading  post,  1824. 

Kickapoo  village  visited  by  Jesuits,  1750,  was  six  miles 

west  of  town. 
Old   salt   works  west   of   city. 
Illinois-Indiana  Fair  grounds. 
National  Soldiers*  Home,  Danville  Branch. 

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Laura  Lee  Home  for  Colored  Children. 

Salvation  Army  Citadel. 

Vermillion  County  World  War  monument. 

Danville  Academy,  chartered  in  1837. 

Home   of   Joseph   G.   Cannon    ("Uncle   Joe"),   famous 

Congressman. 
Home  of  Hiram  Beckwith,  historian. 
Vermillion  River.     Tulip  or  yellow  poplar  trees.     Coal 

mines. 

Daysville — 

Sinnissippi  Farm  of  Col.  Frank  O.  Lowden. 

Decatur 

Lake  Decatur,  "Playground  of  Central  Illinois." 
*First  Illinois  home  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  1830. 
*Log   house   in   Fairview    Park,    Macon    County's   first 

court  house,  1829.     Here  Lincoln  practiced  law. 
*  Collection   of   Lincolniana   in   public   library. 
James  Milliken  University-Decatur   College.      Art  and 

natural  history  collections. 
First  G.  A.  R.  post  organized  here,  April  6,  1866. 
*State  Republican  Convention  held  here.  May  6,  1860, 

first  to  endorse  Lincoln  for  the  presidency. 
Second   largest   bituminous   coal  field   in   the   world   in 

vicinity. 
Boy  and  Girl  Scout  camps  on  Lake  Decatur. 
Dr.   Wm.   Barnes  and  Benjamin  Foster,   collections  of 

Lepidoptera. 

DeKalb — 

Northern  Illinois  State  Teachers'  College.     Museum. 

Barbed  wire  invented  here  by  Joseph  F.  Glidden,  1874.. 

Wurlitzer  Grand  Piano  Co.  factory. 

American  Steel  &  Wire  Co.  mills. 

E.  C.  Montgomery,  collector  of  mosses,  lichens,  plants. 

Delavan — 

Delavan  House,  noted  hostelry,   1837. 

Dillon — 

First  camp  meeting  in  Tazewell  County  held  by  Peter 
Cartwright,  famous   backwoods  preacher,   at   Drums 
Spring  on  Dillon  Creek,  1825. 
Dixon 

Lowell  Park.     Castle  Rock. 

State  Hospital  and  Colony. 

On  the  old  trail  to  the  lead  mines,  Peoria  to  Galena. 

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Site  of  the  Prophets'  (White  Cloud's)  Winnebago  vil- 
lag-e,  1829. 

Site  of  John  Dixon's  fur-trading  post. 

*Site  of  blockhouse  where  Lincoln  served  as  a  soldier 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  1832. 

Junction  of  Stillmans  Creek  with  Rock  Run,  scene  of 
rout  of  Stillman's  militia,  May  14,  1832. 

^Lincoln  Boulder  in  Court  House  Square.  Here  Lin- 
coln stood  when  delivering  his  "Great  Speech,"  Sep- 
tember 8,   1856. 

Museum    in    public    library. 

Kiethly  flower  gardens. 

Dr.  E.  A.  Sickels,  archeologist  and  historian. 

Pine  Creek  and  Pine  Forest  between  here  and  Oregon. 
Downers   Grove — 

Harris  Field  Museum  Extension. 
DuQuoin — 

Saltworks  and  coal  mines. 


East  Dubuque   (Dunlieth)  — 

Old  steamboating  days  town. 
Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

East  Galena — 

Birthplace     (1831)     of    Gen.    John    A.    Rawlins,    Gen, 

Grant's  chief  of  staff,  afterwards  Secretary  of  War. 
East  Moline — 

Watertown  State  Hospital. 
East  St.   Louis — 

Cahokia  State  Mound  Park.     Monks  Mound,  the  largest 

Indian  mound  in  the  United  States.     Numerous  other 
•   mounds.    (See   Cahokia). 
Center  of  extensive  coal-mining  region. 
National    Stock   Yards,    established   in    1872.      Spively 

Building. 
Illinois  State  Pythian  Home. 
Famous  Eads  Bridge  across  the  Mississippi,  completed 

1874. 
Merchants,  McKinley  and  Municipal  bridges. 

Edwards  ville — 

Place  of  publication  of  "The  Edwardville  Spectator," 
1823,  (anti-slavery),  third  newspaper  published  in 
Illinois  Territory. 

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Cahokia  State  Mound  Park.     Coal  mines. 

Early  home  of  Col.  James  D.  Henry,  noted  Black  Hawk 

War  Soldier. 
Woodlawn  flower  gardens. 

Effingham — 

Austin    College,    1890. 

Eldorado — 

Coal  mines. 
Elgin — 

"City  of  Churches." 

Museum  of  Elgin  Scientific  Society. 

Illinois  State  Hospital. 

National  Watch  Co.  factory,  "one  of  the  largest  in 
the  world."     Elgin  Watch  factory  started  in  1864. 

Elgin  Board  of  Trade.  Fixes  market  price  for  butter 
throughout  the  United  States. 

Black  Hawk  War  monument,  Wayne  Cemetery. 

William  W.  Payne,  astronomer.  Cyril  E.  Albott,  en- 
tomologist. 

M.   E.   Bristol,  butterflies  and  moths. 

Elizabeth 

Site  of  Apple  River  Black  Hawk  War  fort,  attacked  by 

Indians,  July  24,  1832. 
Terrapin  Ridge  between  town  and  Woodbine. 
Old  lead  mining  region.     Numerous  farm  cemeteries. 
W.  S.  Eraser,  archeological  collection. 

Elk  Grove 

Forest  Preserve.     Elk  herd. 

Elkhart — 

Home  of  Ex-Governor  Richard  J.  Og-lesby  (1865-69) 
1884-86).     Buried  here. 

Elmhurst — 

Elmhurst  Seminary    (Lutheran),   1865. 

Home  of  Carl  Sandberg,  writer  and  folk  song  recitalist. 

Elmwood 

Birthplace  of  Lorado  Taft  (April  20,  1860),  famous 
sculptor. 

Eureka — 

Eureka  College  (Christian),  1855. 
Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Evanston — 

"The  Ideal  City  of  Homes." 

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Northwestern  University. 

Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  Bennett  Museum  of  Chris- 
tian Archaeology.  College  of  Liberal  Arts,  natural 
history  and  anthropology  collections.  Collections  in 
other  buildings. 

Eyanston  Historical  Society  museum  in  public  library. 

Swedish  Historical  Society  of  America,  historical  col- 
lection. 

North  Shore  Community  Music  Festival. 

Eest  Cottag^e,  former  residence  of  Frances  E.  Willard. 

Home  of  Vice  President  Charles  G.  Dawes. 

Home  of  Catherine  Waugh  McColloch,  publicist. 

Home  of  Lew  Sarrett,  poet  and  writer,  of  Ulysses  S. 
Grant,  geologist,  and  Wilbur  D.  Nesbitt,  writer. 

Tinker  Toy  Company,  "sends  toys  all  over  the  world." 


Farmer   City — 

J.   J.    Hallowell   g'ladiolus  grower. 
Farmington 

Coal  mines. 
Fayville — 

Clay   mines. 
Finnegan  Hill   (west  of  Galena)  — 

Cave  Diggings  lead  mine,  worked  in  1805 

Indian  effigy  and  other  mounds. 
Five  Points — 

U.  S.  Veterans'  Bureau  Hospital. 
Flossmoor — 

T.  J.   Watkins,  gynecologist. 

Fort   Sheridan — 

U.  S.  Army  Post  since  1887.     Named  in  honor  of  Gen. 
Philip  Henry  Sheridan,  famous  Civil  War  soldier. 

Fox   Lake — 

Fox,  Grass,  Marie,  Petite  and  Loon  Lakes. 
American  lotus  beds  in  Grass  Lake. 

Forrest — 

Benjamin  Nussbaum,   archeological  collection. 

Forres  town — 

Dr.  Aiken,  natural  history  and  archeological  collection. 

Freeport — 

Krape  Park  and  Zoo  on  Yellow  Creek.    Taylors  Park. 

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*Site    of    Lincoln-Douglas   Debate,   August    27,    1858. 

Boulder  dedicated  by  President  Roosevelt,   1903. 
Site  of  Black  Hawk  War  fight  of  Kelloggs  Grove. 
Former  home   of   Gen.    Smith    D.   Atkins,    soldier    and 

journalist. 
Stephenson  County  soldiers'  monument. 
Freeport  CoUeg-e,   1895.      Old  Folks'  Home. 
Indian  mounds  in  vicinity.      Site   of  early  Winnebago 

village. 

Fulton — 

Pottery  manufacture. 


Galena — 

*'City  of  Hills  and  History." 

Galena    River,    "The    River    of    Mines,"    so-named    by 

Le  Seur,  French  trader,  1700. 
Center  of  early  lead  mining.     Famous  Black  Jack  mine. 
Site  of  stockade  and  blockhouse,   1832,  corner  of  Elk 

and   Prospect   Streets.      Marked. 
"Branton's  Tavern"  on  Council  Hill.     Site  of  council 

between  Black  Hawk  and  Col.  Henry  Gratiot,  Indian 

agent. 
Nicholas  Dowling  house  built  in  1819,  oldest  house  in 

Galena. 
Prince  de  Joinville  visited  Galena  in  1837  and  1840. 
Colonial  mansion,  home  of  William  Grant  Bales,  built 

in  1847,  on  Bench  Street. 
Union  House,   old  tavern  built  in   1839. 
Site  of  old  post  office,  1840.     Marked. 
Jo  Daviess  County  court  house,  erected  1839.     Marked. 
*De  Soto  House.     Lincoln  spoke  from  its  balcony,  in 

1856.     Jenny  Lind  gave  a  concert  here.      Scene  of 

reception   tendered   to    Gen.    U.    S.    Grant   after   his 

journey  round  the  world. 
Old  home  of  General  Grant,  on  High  Street,  1860. 
Grant  Memorial  Home,  1865,  on  Bouthillier  Street. 
Grant  Monument  in  Grant  Park.     Erected  by  Herman 

Kohlsaat,  dedicated  by  Chauncey  M.   Depew. 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  1826,  on  Prospect  Street. 
Methodist   Episcopal    Church.       (First    church    on   this 

site  was  built  in  1833.)     Bishop  Vincent,  father  of 

the    Chautauqua    movement,    was    once    its    pastor. 

Grant  family  pew  marked  with  silver  plate. 

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St.  Michaels  Church.  Father  Mazzuchelli  served  as 
parish  priest,   1835. 

Old  Galena  cemetery,  "Gods  Acre,"  on  High  Street. 

"Turner    Hall,"    1874,    on    Bench    Street.      Theodore 
Roosevelt,   William  McKinley  and   other  noted   men 
have  spoken  here  at  Grant  birthday  celebrations. 
Lawrence  House,  old  tavern,  built  in  1830.     On  Market 
Square. 

"Januarys  Point,"  named  for  Thomas  January,  Ken- 
tucky trader  and  miner,  who  came  here  in  1821. 

Painting  of  the  Surrender  of  Lee  at  Appomattox,  by 
Thomas  Nast,  in  Grand  Army  Room,  in  postoffice, 
built  by  Gen.  Ely  S.  Parker. 

Galena,  former  home  of  Gen.  John  A.  Rawlins,  Gen. 
A.  L.  Chetlain,  Gen.  Ely  S.  Parker,  Gen.  John  E. 
Smith,  Gen.  John  C.  Smith,  Gen.  W.  R.  Rowley,  Gen. 
J.  A.  Maltby,  Civil  War  soldiers.  Home  of  Herman 
H.  Kohlsaat,  editor  and  newspaper  publisher. 

Birthplace  of  Frederick  Schwatka,  Artie  explorer,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1849. 

Home  of  Mrs.  Florence  Gratiot  Bale,  historian. 

Thomas   E.   Bean,   butterfly   collection. 

Pilot  Knob,  old  steamboat  pilots  landmark,  three  miles 
south. 

Waddels,   Jacksons    and    Charles    Mounds.      Horseshoe 
Mound. 
Galesburg — 

Knox  College,  founded  1837. — Hurd  Museum. 

Lombard   University,    1851. 

Corpus  Christi  University  and  St.  Josephs  Academy. 

"Underground  Railroad"  station. 

*Scene  of  Lincoln-Douglas  Debate,  October  7,   1858. 

*  Grave  of  Dr.  Newton  Bateman,  noted  educator  and 
friend   of  Abraham   Lincoln. 

Galesburg  selected  by  Edward  Bok  as  one  of  "the  four 
ideal  American   cities." 

Birthplace  of  Carl  Sandberg,  author. 
Geneva — 

niinois  State  Normal  School  for  Girls. 

Home  of  Forest  Crissy,  writer. 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Limestone  quarries. 
Georgetown — 

In  making  early  survey,  1837,  "the  North  Star  was 
used  as  a  compass  and  a  grapevine  as  a  chain." 

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Glencoe — 

Steamer  Lady  Elgin  sunk   in   Lake  Michigan   off  tins 

town,  Sept.  8,  1860. 
Robert  Moulton,  writer. 

Glen  Ellyn — 

Glen  Ellyn  Lake. 

Glenview — 

The  Childrens'  Fountain. 

Godfrey — 

Old  Monticello  Female   Seminary. 

Golconda — 

Lead    mines    and    kaolin. 

Birthplace    of    Gen.    John    Raum,    Black    Hawk    War 

soldier,    and    of    Gen.    Green    B.    Raum,    Civil    War 

soldier. 
Birthplace  of  Gen.  James  L.  Alcorn,  C.  S.  A. 

Goreville — 

Fern  Cliffe  in  Redman  Park. 

Grand  Detour — 

Site  of  Chief  Jarro's  early  Winnebago  village. 

Site  of  Baptiste  La  Sallier's  American  Fur  Trading  Co. 

post. 
Manufacture  of  steel  plows  begun  here  by  John  Deere, 

1837. 
Visited   by  Reuben    Gold   Thwaites,   historian,    on   his 

canoe  journey.      Noticed   in   "Historic   Waterways," 

1888. 
Grand  Tower. 

Fountain  Bluff,   Devils  Bake   Oven,   Back  Bone. 

Great  Lakes — 

Great  Lakes  Naval  Training  Station. 

Greenville — 

Greenville  College   (Women). 

H 

Hamilton — 

Site  of  great  Keokuk  Dam  across  the  Mississippi. 
Camile  P.  Dadant,  noted  apiarist  and  writer  on  bee- 
keeping. 
Frank  C.  Pellett,  naturalist. 
Indian  mounds  and  shell  heaps  in  vicinity. 

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Hanover — 

"Sugar  Camp  Hill"  and  Sunset  Rock. 

Famous  and  rich  Black  Jack  mine,  on  Hanover  Ridge 

road. 
T.  D.  Shipton,  archeologist  and  naturalist. 
Indian  efRgy  and  other  mounds  in  vicinity,  350  to  400. 
Sand  Prairie  fine  watermelon  farms. 
U,  S.  Military  proving  grounds,  four  miles  south. 
Hanover  Wollen  Mill,  largest  west  of  Indiana. 

Harding — 

Shabbona  Park.     Named  in  honor  of  the  noted  Potawa- 

tomi  chief  Shabbona. 
Indian   Creek  Massacre  monument,  Black  Hawk  War, 

May  20,  1832. 

Harrisburg 

Garden  of  the  Gods  and  bluffs.     Still  House  Hollow. 
Old  Stone  Face,  near  town. 

Harvard — 

Home  of  E.  A.  Burbank,  artist. 

Boyhood  home   of  Edward  E.   Ayer,   Chicago   museum 

patron. 
Indian  effigy  and  other  mounds  in  vicinity.    Lead  mines. 

Harvey 

Home  Gardens,  hardy  perennials. 

Havana — 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity.     Warren  K.  Moorehead  ex- 
cavations. 
"Post  Oak  Flats"  near  town,  post  and  black  jack  oaks. 
Coal  mine. 

Hennepin — 

Indian  mounds  in  Clear  Creek  valley,  south  of  town. 
Herrin — 

Coal  mines.  Scene  of  recent  Klu  Klux  disturbances.. 
Highland   Park — 

Abraham  L.  Kip  and  Clifford  S.  Raymond,  authors. 

Railroad   Brotherhood   Home. 

Hillsboro 

Coal  mines. 
Hinsdale — 

Home   of   Mrs.    Chas.   H.   Beasly,   daughter   of   George 

Healy,   famous   early   portrait   painter. 
William  G,  Chapman  and  Walter  T.  Field,  authors. 

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Homer — 

Justus  W.  Folsom,  entomolgist. 
Hoopesto'wn — 

Greer  College,  1891. 

Home  of  Mary  Hartwell  Catherwood,  famous  author. 
Hubbard  Woods — 

Adam  E.  Albright,  artist. 
Hutsonville — 

Large  group  of  Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 


Illinois   City — 

Indian  mounds  and  sites  in  vicinity. 


Jacksonville 

Illinois  Schools  for  the  Deaf  and  Blind. 

Illinois  State  Hospital. 

Illinois  College,  1831.     Dr.  Samuel  Adams  monument. 

Illinois  Womans'  College.  Jacksonville  Female  Acade- 
my, 1835,  first  school  for  girls  chartered  in  the  state, 

Routt  Colleg-e    (Catholic). 

Former  ''Underground  Railroad"  station. 

Former  home  and  burial  place  of  Rev.  Porter  Clay, 
brother  of  Henry  Clay. 

Home  of  Gen.  Benj.  H.  Grierson,  noted  Civil  War 
cavalry  officer,  and  of  Gen.  John  A.  McClernand 
(1851-56),  Civil  War  soldier. 

Home  of  Rev.  Peter  Akers,  great  pulpit  orator  and 
author. 

Birthplace  (1855)  of  Edmund  D.  James,  noted  edu- 
cator and  author. 

William  Jennings  Bryan  began  the  practice  of  law 
here. 

Home    of   Newton   Bateman,    organizer    of   the    public 
school  system  of  Illinois.    Tablet.    Grave  of  Governor 
Richard  Yates  (1861-65),  Diamond  Grove  cemetery; 
grave  of  Governor  Joseph  Duncan   (1834-38). 
Jamaica — 

Limestone  quarries. 
Joliet — 

Mount  Joliet,  rallying  point  of  early  Illinois  Indians. 
Mentioned  by  St.  Cosme,  1698,  visited  by  Louis 
Joliet,  French  Canadian  explorer,   1673. 

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Illinois  State  Penitentiary.     The  Woman's  Prison. 
Arboretum.     Museum  of  Natural  History. 
Joliet  Township  High  School,  natural  history  museum. 
Indian  mounds  and  prehistoric  cemetery  in  vicinity. 
Willard  N.  Clute,  editor  American  Botanist,  author  of 

books  on  ferns. 
George    Langford,   archeological    investigator. 
Mrs.   Elenor   Smith,   lichen   collection. 

Jonesboro 

*  Lincoln-Douglas  Debate,  September  16,   1858. 

Johnson   City — 

Coal  mines. 

K 

Kankakee — 

''The  Key  City  of  Illinois." 

Illinois  State  Hospital. 

St.  Viator's  College  and  Notre  Dame  Academy. 

Kroehler    Davenport    Bed    Co. — "largest    plant    of    its 

kind   in   the   world. 
Rock  Creek.     The  Caves. 
Home  of  Burt  E.   Burroughs,  author  of  "Tales  of  an 

Old  Border  Town." 
J.   C.  Bohmker,  archeologist. 

Kansas — 

W.   B.   Taber,  Jr.,   ornithologist. 

Kappa — 

Brick    jail,    forty    years    old,    "has    sheltered    but    one 
prisoner." 
Krause — 

Limestone  quarries  and  plant  of  Columbia  Quarry  Co. 

Kaskaskia — 

Site   of  Kaskaskia  Indian  village,   1700-1795,  about  3 
miles  north  of  town. 

French  settlement,  1700. 

Gen.  George  Rogers  Clark  made  treaty  here  with  the 
Indians,  1778. 

Graves  of  pioneers  on  Garrison  Hill,  site  of  old  Kas- 
kaskia fort. 

Site  of  Chenne  house.     Old  Court  House. 

"The  Elinois  Herald,"  first  newspaper  in  Illinois  Ter- 
ritory,  about   1814. 

Home    of    Gen.    James    Shields,    noted    Mexican    War 
soldier. 

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Kelloggs   Grove 

*  Black  Hawk  war  monument,  battle  of  June  25,  1832. 

Kenilworth — 

Annie  H.  Spicer,  author  of  "Songs  of  the  Skokie,"  etc. 

Kent — 

Black  Hawk  War  Monument,  Kellogg's  Grove. 

Kewaunee — 

Shabbona  or  Pawpaw  Grove,  site  of  Potawatomi  Indian 

village   of  the   famous   chief   Shabbona. 
W.  H.  Cowan,  collection  of  Indian  relics.     Coal  mines. 

Kingston — 

Mark  Cole,  collection  of  Indian  relics.     Coal  mines. 

Kishwaukee — 

Site  of  Sycamore  Winnebago  village,   1829. 

Knoxville 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

St.  Mary's  School  and  St.  Alban's  Academy. 


Lacon — 

R.  M.  Barnes  ornithologist.     Coal  mines. 

Lagrange — 

Indian  mounds  and  enclosure  at  junction  of  Crooked 
Creek  and  the  Illinois  River,  south  of  t€wn.  Mounds 
at  Perry  Springs  Station. 

Lake  Bluff— 

U.  S.  Naval  Training  Station. 

Home  of  Sherwin  Cody,   author  of  books  on  business 

practice. 
W.  C.  T.  U.  unions  gathered  here  by  Frances  E.  Will- 

ard,  1880,  to  organize  for  national  prohibition. 

Lake  Forest — 

Lake  Forest  University. 

Lake  Forest  College    (Co-ed),   1876.     Natural  History 

museum. 
Lake   Forest  Academy.      Ferry   Hall. 

Lanark — 

Glenn  W.  Dresbach,  author. 

Langley 

Katherine  Reynolds,  writer. 

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La  Salle — 

Illinois-Michig'an    Canal    terminus. 

Glass  manufacture.      Coal  mines.      Zinc  smelters. 

Home  of  Thomas  J,  McCormack,  textbook  writer  and 

lecturer. 
Starved  Rock  Park,  east  of  city.     Deer  Park  near  city. 
Lawrenceville — 

Extensive  g'as  fields. 

Scott  H.  Eaton,  naturalist.     W.  J.  Leighty,  entomolo- 
gist. 
Lebanon — 

Former    home    of    Ex-Governor    Augustus    C.    French, 

1846-53.      Grave  in  cemetery. 
McKendree   College    (M.   E.),   1835,   one  of  the  oldest 
Illinois  colleges.     Founded  by  Rev.  Peter  Cartwright. 

Lemont 

Silurian  limestone   (Athens  Marble)    quarries. 
Illinois  Michigan  Canal,  and  Chicago  Drainage  Canal. 
Lewistown — 

Dickson's  "Mound  Builders  Tomb." 
Liberty  ville — 

St.   Mary's   Seminary.      Cook   Memorial  Library. 
Site  of  first  post  office  in  Lake  County.     Marked. 
Medicinal  springs, 
Lincoln — 

*Only   city   named   after  Abraham   Lincoln   before   he 

became  famous. 
*Site  of  Logan  County's  first  court  house.     Here  Lin- 
coln practiced  law  from  1840-48.     Boulder  marker. 
Old  court  house  stands  at  southern  outskirts  of  town. 
State  School  and  Colony. 
*James    Milliken    University-Lincoln    College.       Small 

museum. 
Odd  Fellows'  Orphans  Home. 
Lintner — 

R.  M.  Friesner,  collection  of  moths  and  butterflies. 
Lisle — 

Morton  Arboretum. 

Joy  Morton,   archeologist   and   historian. 
Lockport — 

Illinois-Michigan  Canal.     Extensive  limestone  quarries. 
Lombard — 

Katherine    Reynolds,   writer. 

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M 

Mackinaw 

Site  of  Chief  Machinas  early  Kickapoo  village  on  the 

Mackinaw  River. 
Oldest  town  in  the  state. 
*Hotel   where   Lincoln   stopped. 

Macomb — 

Western  Illinois  State  Teachers'  College. 
McDonough  Normal  and  Scientific  College. 
Fire  clay  deposits.     Potteries. 
Charles  Harris,  archeological  collection. 

Macon — 

Corn  shipping  center. 

Manito — 

Peat  beds. 
Marblehead — 

Limestone   quarries. 

Marion — 

Coal  mining  region. 

Mattoon — 

Corn  and  broom  corn  region. 

Birthplace  of  Thomas  C.  Chamberlin   (Sept.  25,  1845), 

famous  geologist. 
*  Graves  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Bush  Lincoln,  parents 

of  Abraham  Lincoln,  in  Gordon  Cemetery. 
Paradise  Lake. 

Mayville — 

U.  S.  Mail  Flying  Field.     U.  S.  Veterans'  Hospital. 

Maywood 

Thomas  C.  Clark,  author  and  composer. 
Maywood  Flower  Gardens. 

Mazon    Creek 

Mazon  Creek  fossils. 

McHenry — 

Great  hunting  ground  for  wild  fowl.     Nippersink  Lake. 

McLean — 

F.  W.  Aldrich,  archeologist. 
Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Mendota — 

Wartburg  Seminary   (Lutheran),  1853. 

Menominee — 

Old  grist  mill.     Sinsinawa  Mound  in  vicinity. 

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Metamora — 

*Court    house    (1845)    where    Lincoln    practiced    law. 

Robert   E.    Ingersoll   and   Adlai   E.    Stephenson   also 

practiced  here. 
Carriage   and  wagon   works. 

Metropolis — 

Site  of  Fort  Massac  (Illinois  State  Park).     Built  by  the 

French,  1756;  captured  by  the  British,  1765,  and  by 

George  Rogers  Clark,  July  4,  1778. 
Site  visited  by  DeSoto,  1542,  by  Aaron  Burr,  1805. 
Peach  orchards,  tobacco  and  cotton  fields.     Ohio  River 

waterfront. 
Metropolis  Bending  Co.   (buggy  and  automobile  bows), 

largest  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 
Roberts-Ligget  Co.,  fruit  baskets,  boxes  and  packag'es. 
Wilson  Stove  Co.,  60,000  to  80,000  stoves  and  ranges 

annually. 

Middleport — 

"^Old  county  seat  of   Iroquois   County.      Lincoln  tried 
a  case  here  in  1840. 

Milan 

Black  Hawk's  Watch  Tower.      Old   Indian   corn  fields. 
Coal  mining  town. 

Milbury — 

Site  of  early  lead  mining,     ''Bell's  Mill",  old  grist  mill. 

Mineral   Springs 

Noted  Indian  mineral  spring. 

Moline 

"The   Quad   City  Airport"   and   the   "Plow   City." 

Home  of  the  John    Deere  and  Moline  plows. 

Air  excursions,  Moline  to  Chicago. 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity.   Black  Hawk's  Watch  Tower. 

Momence — 

Old  Border  Town.     Kankakee  marshes. 

Milestone  Marker  of  the  Chicago-Vincennes  Trail,  1834 

(Hubbard  Trace,  1824),  northeast  of  town. 
Metcalf  farm,  site  of  first  white  settlement  in  eastern 

Illinois,    (Upper  Crossing  of  the  Kankakee,   1838). 
Bogus  Islands,  "famous  early  retreats  of  counterfeiters 

and  cattle  thieves,"  east  of  town. 
Site    of    Gurdon    S.    Hubbard    trading    post.      Site    of 

White  Pigeon's  Potawatomi  village. 

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Monmouth — 

Monmouth  College  (United  Presbyterian),  1856. 
"Garden  of  Smiles,"  dahlias,  gladiolus  and  hardy  bulbs. 
B.  M.  Quown,  archeological  collection. 

Monticello — 

*Here,  on  July  29,  1858,  Lincoln  and  Douglas  first 
agreed  to  meet  in  Joint  Debate  in  Illinois.  Pyramid 
marker. 

Montezuma — 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 
Montgomery — 

Mineral  springs.     Artesian  magnesia  bottling  works. 
Mooseheart — 

National   Orphans'   Home,   Loyal   Order  of  Moose. 
Morris — 

Grave  of  Chief  Shabbona,  "The  White  Man's  Friend," 
in  Evergreen  Cemetery.     Boulder  Monument. 

Mt.    Carroll   Seminary,    1852. 

Indian   mounds   and   cemetery. 

Mazon  Creek  fossils.      Coal  mines. 
Morrison — 

Kay  Bee   Co.,  fern  gl-owers. 
Mound    City 

Indian  mounds  in  vicinity. 

Headquarters  in  1863  of  the  Mississippi  Squadron. 

Site  of  Civil  War  navy  yard. 

National  Cemetery. 
Mount    Sterling — 

Coal,  and  clay  deposits. 

Mt.   Carmel 

Founded  by  four  Methodist  ministers,   1818. 

President  Mills,  one  of  the  largest  flour  mills  in  Illinois. 

Snider  Preserving  Company,  makers  of  the  famous 
Snider  Catsup. 

Wabash  Truss  Hoop  Company,  only  factory  in  the 
world  making  truss  hoops. 

Pearl  Button  Factory.  Buttons  made  from  shells  ob- 
tained from  the  Wabash  River. 

One  of  the  largest  oil  sections  in  Illinois,  5000  barrels 
come  from  over  200  flowing  wells  in  Wabash  County. 

Natural  Amphitheatre.     First  Christian  Church. 

Mt.   Carroll 

Smiths  Park. 

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Mt.  Morris — 

Rock  River  Seminary  and  Collegiate  Institute. 
Mt.  Vernon — 

Birthplace  of  Gen.  Wm.  B.  Anderson,  Civil  War  soldier. 
Mulbrig — 

Apple  River  Canyon,  proposed  state  park. 
Mundelein — 

St.  Mary's  of  the  Lake  Theological  Seminary. 

Site  of  Eucharistic  Congress. 
Murphysboro — 

Birthplace  of  Maj.  Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  famous  Civil 
War  soldier. 

N 

Naperville — 

Northwestern  College,  1861.     Natural  history  museum. 
Nauvoo — 

Site  of  Mormon  City  of  Nauvoo,  1839-46. 

Site   of  Mormon  Temple,    1841.      The   Nauvoo   House. 

Brigham   Young    house.      Joseph    Smith    homestead. 

Mansion  House. 
Site    of    Fl-ench    Icarian    Community,    1849.      Icarian 

Apartment  house. 
First  house  in  Nauvoo,  1827. 
New   Boston — 

Indian  shell  heaps  near  town. 

Mounds  between  town  and  Drurys  Landing. 

New   Salem    (restored)  — 

*New  Salem  State  Park,  the  home  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
1831.  Rutledge  Inn.  Berry  and  Lincoln  store.  Hill 
and  McNamee's  store,  Herndon's  store,  Offut's  store, 
Onstott's  cooper  shop,  and  other  historic  buildings. 
Custodian's   cottage   and   museum. 

*  Grave  of  Ann  Rutledge  in  Oakland  Cemetery. 
Niles    Center — 

Old  wind  mill. 

Normal — 

Illinois  State  Normal  University. 
Illinois  Soldiers'   Orphans  Home. 
Nursery  center.     Rich  coal  mining  region. 
Ralph  W.  Pringle,  author  and  lecturer. 

Northbrook — 

Clara  M.  Dietz,  natural  history  collections. 

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North  Crystal  Lake —  ^ 

Frank   A.   Cox,   dealer   in   curios. 

Nott— 

Coal  mines. 

O 

Oak  Park — 

Borrowed  Time  Club  (members  over  70  years  of  ag'e.) 
Home  of  Wm.  Eleazar  Barton,  noted  author. 

O'Fallon — 

Prairie  Lawn   Gardens,   cut  flowers. 

Oglesby — 

Bailey  Falls. 

Old  Town . 

Site  of  early  Kickapoo  Indian  village.  ^ 

Olivet — 

Holiness  College. 

Olney — 

Home   of   Robert   Ridgway,   famous   ornithologist, 

Onarga — 

Onarga  Military  Academy. 

Ora —  ^" 

Feldspar  mines  south  of  town. 

Oregon — 

Black  Hawk  Statue  by  Lorado  Taft,  on  North  Bluff.         | 

48  feet  high. 
Eagle's     Nest     (artist     colony).       Ganymede     Spring. 

Here    Margaret    Fuller    wrote    "Ganymede    to    His 

Eagle,"  July  4,  1843. 
Margaret  Fuller  Island. 
Soldiers'    Memorial    by    Lorado     Taft,     Court    House 

Square. 
*Lincoln   Boulder,    on   North   Fourth    Street.      Lincoln 

spoke  here,  August  16,  1856. 
Legion  Shaft  on  Black  Hawk  Trail,  at  corner  of  Ceme- 
tery Lane. 
Liberty  Hill,  city  reservoir. 
Riverview  Cemetery.     Grave  of  late  Chief  Justice  J.  H. 

Cartwright. 
Driscoll  Boulder,  marks  historic  incident  of  desperado 

days.     Five  miles  south  of  town. 
Hotel  Rock.     Hemmingway  Rocks.     Thousand  Islands. 
Home  of  Dr.  B.  A.  Cottlow  and  M.  E.  Schriver,  arche- 

ologists. 

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Ottawa — 

Site    of    Kaskaskia-Illinois    Indian    village    visited    by 

Father  Marquette,  1673. 
Site  of  Black  Hawk  War  fort,  1832. 
*Lincoln    Boulder   on    Public    Square.      Marks    site    of 

first  Lincoln-Douglas   Debate,   August   21,    1858. 
Place   where   first   soft   coal   was   discovered    by   Friar 

Hennepin,  l689. 
Pleasant  View  Luther  College.     St.  Xaviers  Academy. 
Sanicula  mineral  and  health  springs. 
''Underground  Railroad"  Station. 

Statuette  replica  of  Art  Institute  Fountain — Mix  Park. 
Golden  Rule  Home. 

Spoor  House,   furnished  with  antique  furniture. 
*Lincoln  Sun  Dial  at  confluence  of  Rock  and  Illinois 

rivers. 
Home  of  W.  E.  Howard,  ornithologist. 
Many  Indian  mounds  in  vicinity.     Buffalo  Rock. 
Starved  Rock   Park,   Entrance   at   Salt  Well,   14   miles 

west  of  town. 
Here  Fort  St.  Louis  was  established  by  Chevalier  Sieur 

de  la  Salle  and  Henri  de  Tonti,  1683. 
Starved  Rock,  Watch  Tower,  Lover's  Leap,  Eagle  Cliff, 

Bee    Hive,    Devils    Nose,    Lone    Tree,    Pulpit    Rock, 

Council   Cave,   Dimmick   Hill,    St.    Louis,   Kickapoo, 

Sac,  Pontiac,  Wild  Cat,  Tonti,  La  Salle,   and  other 

canyons. 
Prehistoric    Indian    fortification,    half    mile    south    of 

Starved  Rock. 
The  Devils  Backbone,  south  of  city. 
Castle  Rock,  5  miles  south  of  city. 
Sinnissippi  Farm  of  Col.  Frank  0.  Lowden. 
Shabbona  Park,  14  miles  north  of  town. 

P 

Palos   Park — 

Forest  Preserve. 
Paris — 

Bur  oak  near  town,  largest  tree  in  Illinois.     Eighteen 
feet  in  circumference,  108  feet  high. 

Broom  corn  region.     Broom  manufacture. 
Paxton — 

Geo.  E.  Ekblaw,  archeologist. 
Peatone — 

Home  of  Raymond  Kelly,  writer. 

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Pekin — 

Site  of  Potawatomi  village  of  Chief  Shabbona,  1832. 
At  foot  of  Broadway  near  the  gas  works. 

*Home  of  Black  Nance,  the  first  slave  freed  by  Abra- 
ham Lincoln. 

Site  of  Fort  Doolittle,  Black  Hawk  War. 

First  steamboat  to  ascend  the  Illinois  reached  Pekin  in 
the  fall  of  1828. 

Bell  captured  at  Vera  Cruz  during  the  Mexican  War. 
Brot  back  by  Co.  G.,  Fourth  Illinois  Volunteers, 
June  7,  1847. 

Early  home  of  Gen.  Franklin  L.  Rhoads,  Civil  War  sol- 
dier. 

Home  of  William  H.  Bates,  historian  and  publisher. 

Mineral  Spring  Park.      Tuscarora  Dahlia  Farm. 

Corn  Products  Co.  factory.     Two  coal  mines. 

Peoria — 

"The  Convention  City."  Second  largest  city  in  Ill- 
inois. 

Site  of  Miami  Indian  village,  1680.  Site  of  Peoria 
Indian  village. 

Site  of  Fort  Creve  Coeur  (Broken  Heart)  erected  by 
LaSalle,  1680.     On  the  Illinois  River  at  Wesley  City. 

Site  of  French  villag-e,  1879-1812.  American  Fur  Co. 
trading  post,  1824.     Site  of  Fort  Clark. 

Grave  of  Ex-Governor  Thomas  Ford  (1842-46),  Spring- 
dale  Cemetery. 

Experiment  shop  of  Chas.  Duryea,  where  the  first  gas 
engine  was  built. 

Former  home  of  Robert  J.  Burdette,  journalist  and 
humorist. 

Home  (1857-60)  of  Robert  G.  Ingersoll,  famous  orator 
and  agnostic. 

Home  of  G.  T.  Griffith,  editor  of  ^'Boating"  magazine. 

Home  of  Holt  caterpillar  tractors. 

Home  of  George  Fitch,  author;  of  Clarence  E.  Corn- 
stock,  textbook  author. 

Illinois  State  Hospital.     Bradley  Polytechnic  Institute. 

Peoria  Lake.     Prospect  Heights.     Zoological  Park. 

Indian  mound  groups  near  town. 

Pawpaw  and  persimmon  trees,  northern  range  in  Ill- 
inois. 

Peru — 

Home  of  "Big  Ben"  clocks.     The  Western  Clock  Co. 

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Home  of  famous  "Paris"  garters.  Incas  Manufactur- 
ing Co. 

Manufacture   of  artificial  ice. 

St.  Bede   College,   Benedictine  Fathers. 

Illinois  Zinc  Co.,  one  of  the  largest  plants  in  the  United 
states. 

Bituminous  coal  mines,  eleven  in  the  vicinity. 

Indian  mounds  near  town. 

Starved  Rock  Park  and  Deer  Park,  5  miles  distant. 

Petersburg — 

"^  Salem  State  Park,  the  early  home  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Buildings  of  the  settlement  of  New  Salem  restored. 

Museum. 
*  Grave  of  Ann  Rutledge,   Oakland   Cemetery. 
Dr.  H.  B.  Stephenson  monument.     One  of  the  founders 

of  the  G.  A.  R. 
Jenison  Hall  of  Applied   Christianity. 
Indian  mounds  on  Sangamon  River  bluffs. 

Peters  Creek — 

Feldspar  mines  north  of  town. 

Pinckneyville 

Coal   mines. 
Piano — 

Large  agricultural  machinery  factories. 

Millhurst  and  Big  Creek.     Indian  mounds  west  of  town. 

Indian  fortification  south  of  town. 

Pleasant   Plains — 

Early  home  and  burial  place  of  Rev.  Peter  Cartwright, 
famous  backwoods  preacher. 

Pleasant    Valley — 

Indian  mounds  and  sites  near  town. 
Polo- 
White  Pine  Forest. 

Walmsley  Bros,  firearms  collection. 

M.  E.  Schriver,  archeological  collection. 

Large  cattle   shipping  point. 
Pontiac — 

Town  settled  in  1825. 

Illinois  State  Reformatory. 

Swimming  Pool,  one  of  the  finest  in  Illinois. 

Civil  War  Soldiers  monument. 

Home  of  Henry  J.  Meis,  archeologist.  Large  collec- 
tion. 

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Portland — 

Indian  mounds  and  sites  in  vicinity. 
Prairie  du  Rocher — 

Ruins  of  Fort  Chartres,  early  French  fort.     Captured 
by  the   British,   1765.      Three   miles  north   of  town. 
Illinois  State  Park. 
Princeton — 

Indian  mounds  near  town.     Coal  mines. 
Pullman — 

Pullman  Car  Co.  shops.     Manufacture  of  the  famous 
Pullman  palace  cars  begun  here,   1881.      Town  an- 
nexed to  Chicago,  1890. 
Putnam — 

Home  of  George  E.  Wheeler,  archeologist. 


Quincy — 

"Americas  Gem  City."     Site  of  early  Indian  village. 

Illinois  Soldiers'  and   Sailors'  Home. 

Quincy  College.     Chaddock  School  for  Boys   (M.  E.) 

1878. 
Historical      Building      (Quincy      Historical      Society), 

former  home  of  Ex-Governor  John  E.  Wood. 
St.  PYancis  Solanus  College  (Roman  Catholic). 
Gen.  George  Rogers  Clark  monument,  Riverview  Park. 
John   Wood   statue,   Washington    Park.      First   settler, 

1821;  governor,   1860-61. 
*Site    of    Lincoln-Douglas    Debate,    Washington    Park 

October  13,  1858. 
Quincy  stove  manufacturing  plants.     "We  make  stoves 

for  the  World." 
Mississippi  Power  Dam  near  town.     Ferry  boats. 
Homan  Falls.     Indian  mounds  on  River  bluffs.   Moorish 

Castle. 
Indian  Mounds  Park.     Keystone  Bridge,   South   Park. 

Sunset  Heights. 
Old  lime  kilns.     Washington  and  Gardner  Parks. 
A  former  home  of  Mary  A.  Livermore,  reformer  and 

philanthropist. 
Home  of  Gen.  James  D.  Morgan,  1865-96.  Civil  War 

soldier. 
Birthplace  of  Neysa  Moran  McMein,  artist.. 
Charles    T.    Dazey,    dramatist;    Katherine    H.    Brown, 

writer,  and  T.  E.  Musselman,  naturalist. 

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R 

Rantoul — 

U.  S.  Army  Flying  Field  (Chanute  Field). 
Radom — 

Site  of  Polish  Colony  (1879)  established  by  Gen.  John 
Basil  Turchin,  Russian  Civil  War  soldier. 
Ravinia — 

Home  of  Jens  Jenson,  noted  landscape  architect. 
Rich    Woods — 

Birthplace   of   Gen.    William   P.    Carlin,   brilliant   Civil 
War  soldier. 
Ridge   Farm — 

Friends'  Academy. 

River   Forest — 

Home  of  C.  W.  Eifrig,  naturalist. 
Roanoke — 

Coal  mines. 
Robinson — 

Extensive  g'as  fields. 
Robins  Nest — 

Jubilee  College  (Protestant  Episcopal),  founded  by 
Bishop   Philander   Chase,    1838. 

Rochelle 

Rich  agricultural  region. 
Rock  Falls — 

Rock  River  Drive.     Government  canal  and  locks. 
Rockford — 

Rockford  College  for  Women,  1847. 

Third  largest  furniture  manufacturing  town  in  the 
United   States. 

Thayer  Action  Company,  largest  manufacturers  of 
piano  actions  in  the   country. 

J.  W.  Miller  Company,  largest  incubator  manufactur- 
ers. 

Chappel  Bros.,  Inc.  Only  packing  plant  of  its  kind  in 
country,  killing  horses  exclusively.  Meat  exported 
for  human  consumption. 

Indian  effigy  mounds  in  Beattie  Park. 

Museum  in  Mandeville  Park. 

H.  W.  Buckbee,  Rockford  Seed  Farms. 

Camp  Grant,  World  War  military  training  reservation, 
four  miles  south  of  town.  65,000  men  then  sta- 
tioned here. 

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Illinois  National  Guard  training  camp. 

Indian  mound  groups  on  Rock  River. 

Home  of  Julia  C.  Lathrop,  humanitarian. 

Harry  Brooks,  collection  of  Indian  relics. 

H.  A.  Lambert,  antiques  and  firearms. 
Rock  Island — 

Site  of  Ft.  Armstrong,  1816. 

Site  of  trading  post  and  home  of  Col.  George  Daven- 
port (Sag-a-nash),  1816-45. 

Steamboat  Virginia,  the  first  on  the  Upper  Mississippi, 
landed  here,  1823. 

Dred  Scott,  negro,  brought  here  from  Missouri  and  sold 
as  a  slave. 

Rock  Island  Arsenal,   1863.     Armory. 

Monument  at  grave   of   Gen.   Thomas   J.   Rodman,   in- 
ventor of  the  famous  gun,  in  U.  S.  Cemetery. 

Confederate  prison  and   cemetery. 

Augustana  College    (Lutheran).     Natural  history  mu- 
seum. 

Modern  Woodmen  of  America  office  building. 

Vila  de  Chantal,   Sisters  of  the  Visitation. 

Home  of  Gen.  N.  P.  Buford,  noted  Civil  War  soldier.       ^ 

Black  Hawk's  Watch  Tower  near  town. 

Bank  swallow  colony  near  the  above. 
Rockton — 

Winnebago  camp  at  Macks  Point,  1838. 

Site  of  trading  post  of  Stephen   Mack,   1829.      South 
bluff  of  Rock  at  mouth  of  the  Pecatonica. 

Ho-no-ne-gah  Park.      Indian  mounds  near  town. 

Home   of   Capt.   Wm.   Talcott,   soldier   of  the   War  of 
1812  and  pioneer. 
Rondout — 

Mineral  waters. 
Roniclare — ' 

Fluorspar  mines. 
Roscoe — 

Wolf's  Den  Cave  northeast  of  town. 
Rushville — 

Childhood  home  of  John  L.  Scripps,  noted  journalist. 
Fruit  farms.     Coal  mines. 

S 
Salem — 

Birthplace  of  William  Jennings  Bryan,  March  19,  1860. 
Fruit  culture  and  evaporation. 

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Savanna — 

"Picturesque  Savanna." 

Twin    Sisters.      Bible    Rocks.      Indian   Head,    north    of 

town. 
Marquette  Park. 
Largest  terminal  of  the  C.  M.  &  St.  P.  R.  R. 

Saybrook — 

Maud  C.  Anderson  perennial  garden.         ^ 

Scales  Mound — 

Scales  Mound  and  other  mounds. 

Charles    Mound,    highest    point    of    land    ip    TliTiois 

1,241  feet. 
Site    of    tavern    of    Samuel    H.    Scales,    1830,    on    the 

"Suckers  Trail"  stage  route. 
Secor — 

Reels  Bridge  and  Dells,  Mackinaw  River. 
Seneca — 

Site  of  farm  purchased  by   Ottawa  citizens  for  Chief 

Shabbona,  1855.     Two  miles  north. 
Shabbona  Park — 

Site    of    Black    Hawk    War    Indian    massacre,     1832. 
Named  for  Chief  Shabbona,  who  warned  the  settlers 

of  the  impending  danger. 
Shawneetown — 

One  of  the  oldest  towns  in  Illinois,  laid  out  in   1805. 
Place  of  publication   of   "The   Shawnee   Chief,"    1818, 

second  newspaper  in  Illinois  Territory. 
Former  home  of  Gen.  John  A.  McClernand,  Civil  War 

soldier. 
Gen.  James  H.  Wilson,  distinguished  Civil  War  soldier, 

born  near  town. 
Home   of   Col.    Edward   R.    Roe,   author   of   "Virginia 

Rose"  and  other  books. 
Site  of  early  salt  works.     Maj.  Willis  Hargrave  house. 
Cypress  trees  in  Mississippi  River  bottoms. 
Shiloh— 

Early  home  of   Col.   John  Thomas,   Black   Hawk   War 

soldier. 

Springfield — 

"The  Home  of  Abraham  Lincoln"    (1837-1861). 
State  Capitol  Building. 

*Abraham  Lincoln  Statue,  by  Andrew  O'Connor. 

♦Stephen  A.  Douglas  Statue,  by  Gilbert  P.  Riswold. 

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Pierre  Menard  Statue. 

John  M.  Palmer  Statue,  by  Leonard  Crunelle. 

Richard  Yates,  Sr.  Statue,  by  Albin  Polasek. 
State    House.      Supreme    Court    Building".      Executive 

Mansion. 
State  Museum  of  Natural  History. 
State   Arsenal   and   Armory.      Dedicated   by   Theodore 

Roosevelt,  June  4,   1905. 
*Centennial   Memorial   Building,    1918.      Houses  great 

collection  of  Lincolniana. 
Illinois  State   Historical   Library. 

*  Sangamon  County  Court  House    (formerly  the  State 

House).  Here  Lincoln  delivered  his  great  speech  on 
the  Nebraska  Bill.  Here  his  body  laid  in  state  on 
its  arrival  from  Washington. 

*  Lincoln  marker  on  Sangamon   Court  House  grounds. 

Marking  his  route  in  riding  the  Eighth  Judical  cir- 
cuit,  1847-1857. 
*Building  at  528  Adams  Street  where  he  wrote  his  first 
inaugural  address  as  President,  January  1861.     Law 
offices   of   Lincoln   and   Logan. 

*  Building  at  corner  of  Sixth  and  Adams  Streets.     Law 

office  of  Lincoln  and  Log'an,  1841-44. 
*Site   of  Ninian   Edwards'  home  where   Mr.   and  Mrs. 

Lincoln  were  married. 
*Site  of  Globe  Tavern,  315  East  Adams  Street,  where 

the  Lincolns  lived  after  their  marriage. 
*Lincoln    Homestead,    1844-61,    Eighth    and    Jackson 

Streets. 

*  Chicago  &  Alton  R.  R.  Station.     At  the  old  station 

on  this  site  Lincoln's  body  was  received,  1865. 
^Lincoln    Monument    and    Lincoln    Memorial    Hall,    m 

Oak  Ridge  Cemetery. 
Illinois  State  Fair  Ground. 

French  Garden  and  Lotus  Pond,  Washington  Park. 
Concordia   Seminary    (Lutheran),    1879. 
Graves  of  Governors  William  H.  Bissell,  Shelby  M.  Cul- 

lon  and  John  R.  Tanner,  Oak  Ridge  Cemetery. 
Birthplace  of  Nicholas  Vachel  Lindsay,  poet,  Nov.  10, 

1879. 
Illinois  Watch  Co.  plant. 

Edward  W.  Payne,  great  archeological  collection. 
Frank  W.  Allen,  author;  G.  L.  Hockenyos,  naturalist. 
Staunton — 

Coal  mines  and  gas  field. 

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Sterling — 

Hennepin  Canal  and  locks. 

♦Lincoln  Boulder  on  Central  School  grounds.     Marks 
site  where  he  spoke  in   1856. 

Whiteside  County  Historical  Society-Museum. 

Home  of  Gen.  Edward  N.  Kirk,  brilliant  Civil  War  sol- 
dier. 

Birthplace  of  Jesse  Lynch  Williams,  author,  August  17, 
1861. 

Indian  mounds  on  Rock  Run. 
Stillman — 

Site    of    "Battle"    of    Stillmans    Run,    May    14,    1832. 
Monument  in  Battle  Ground  Park. 
Streator — 

Clay  and  glass  products  plants.     Coal  mines. 

Vermillion   River   Dam. 
St.  Anns — 

Center  of  early  French  Canadian  colony  of  Rev.  Charles 
Chiniquy,  noted  reformer. 
St.  Charles —  • 

St.  Charles  School  for  Boys. 

Edith  Belle  Lowry,  writer. 

.it.  John — 

Salt  wells. 
Sycamore — 

Immense  corn  fields  in  vicinity. 

Community  Park.     Marshs  Park. 

Frank  E.  Stevens,  authority  on  local  Indian  history. 
Sylvan   Springs — 

Maramech  Hill,  site  of  Miami  Village,   1684. 
Sullivant    Farm — 

Famous  farm    (1854)    of  Michael  L.   SuUivant,  noted 
agriculturist.     In  Champaign  and  Piatt  Counties. 


"amaroa — 

Maple  Lawn  Gardens. 

'eutopolis — 

Original  German  colony. 
Texico — 

J.  Earl  Hooper,  zoologist. 
Tremont — 

*Site  of  court  house    (1839)   where  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  challenged  by  Gen.  James  Shields. 

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Troy  Grove — 

Indian  mounds  and  sites  in  vicinity. 

U 
Urbana — 

"Home  of  the  University  of  Illinois." 
University  of  Illinois,   1868. 

Illinois  University  Museum. 

University  Art  Gallery.     Memorial  Stadium.    Sunken 
Garden. 

University   Woods — Thirty   species   of   native   trees. 
*Abraham  Lincoln  Statue,  by  Lorado  Taft. 
$100,000  Swimming  Pool. 
Brownsfield  Woods.      Bur  oak  tree,   15 Va   ft.   circum., 

104  ft.  high,  one  of  the  largest  trees  in  Illinois.  kV 

Birthplace  of  Brand  Whitlock  (March  4,  1869),  author! 

and  diplomat.  1 

Frank  C.  Baker,  noted  conchologist. 
Prof.  William  Trelease,  famous  botanist. 
Dr.  C.  A.  Williams,  natural  history  collection. 
A  Sidney  Hyde,  ornithologist,  G.  W.  Still,  entomologist.  I 
Utica —  I 

Site  of  chief  village  of  the  Kaskaskia  Indians,  visited' 

by  Father  Marquette,  1673.     Mission  of  Immaculate 

Conception  established  by  him  in  1674. 
Site  of  Fort  St.  Louis,  established  by  La  Salle,  1682. 
Starved  Rock  Park,  one  mile  south  of  town. 

Starved   Rock,   Horseshoe   Canyon,   French   Canyon, 
Council  Cave,  Devils  Nose,  Eagle  Cliff,  Salt  Well, 
Etc. 
Heroic  Statue  of  Chief  Black  Hawk,  by  Lorado  Taft. 

V 

Vandalia — 

Capital  of  the  State,  1819-1839. 

Vandalia    Court   House,    first   capitol    building   of   the , 

State,  built  in  1822.  '' 

♦Abraham   Lincoln   here   served   as  a   member   of  the 

state  legislature. 
Burial  place  of  Maj.  Wm.  McHenry,  Black  Hawk  War 

soldier. 
Vermont — 

Artesian  well,  depth  900  feet. 

Versailles — 

Agricultural  and  timber  region. 

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irginia — 

Rich   agricultural   region. 

W 

iVaddams — 

Home  of  Waddams,  first  settler  in  Stephenson  County, 
1833. 

Warren — 

Canyons  of  Apple  River. 

Terminal  of  I.  C.  R.  R.,  1853.    Great  boom  at  that  time. 

Warrenville 

Lund  &  McLean  perennial  garden. 

Warsaw — 

Site  of  Fort  Edwards,  erected  by  Zachary  Taylor,  War 

of  1812. 
"ome  in  1861  of  John  Hay,  famous  author  and  diplo- 
mat. 

ormer  home  of  Amos  H.  Worthen,  noted  geologist, 
idian  mounds,  south  of  town. 

ertown — 

linois  State  Hospital, 
'^alter  Walden,  author. 
seka — 
oal  mines. 
aconda — 

rave  of  Reuben  Hill,  Revolutionary  War  soldier. 
akegan — 
;oosevelt  Park, 
'emple  Am  Echod. 

./lasonic   Memorial,   North   Shore    Cemetery. 
Johns-Manville   Inc.,   "Worlds  pioneer   asbestos   firm." 
The  Abbott  Laboratories. 
Womans'  Country  Club.     Joseph  Bowen  Country  Club 

(Hull  House  Association,  Chicago). 
Arden  Shore,  camp  for  mothers  and  children. 
Lake  Michigan  shore  wild  flower  preserve. 
Home  of  W.  S.  Lyon,  Inland  Bird  Banding  Association. 
Wedron— 

Prehistoric  Indian  mounds  and  enclosures  in  vicinity. 
St.  Peters  sandstone  quarries. 
Wesley  City — 

Site  of  Port  Creve  Coeur,  built  by  La  Salle,  1680. 

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Site  of  "Trading  House,"  1775.  Here  Father  Hyppolite 
Maillet,  1778,  assembled  a  body  of  French  and  Indi- 
ans for  the  capture  of  the  British  Fort  St.  Joseph, 
"and  struck  the  first  successful  blow  for  American 
liberty." 

Wheaton — 

Wheaton  College   (Illinois  Institute),  1853. 
Public  Library,  gift  of  John  Quincy  Adams. 
L.   Allen   Higby,  geological   collection.      Roy  J.   Snell, 
author. 

Wilmette — 

Center  of  floriculture. 
Wilmington — 

Illinois  Soldiers'  Widows  Home. 
Winchester — 

♦Stephen  A.  Douglas  taught  school  here  in   1833. 
Winnetka — 

Hadley  Correspondence  School  for  the  Blind. 

A.  F.  Scharf,  archeological  collection. 

Chas.  D.  Klotz,  ornithologist. 

Joseph  Husband  and  Howard  V.  O'Brien,  authors. 
Woodstock — 

Home  of  the  Oliver  Typewriter. 
Wyoming — 

Home  of  Gen.  Samuel  Thomas,  1834. 


Yankeetown — 

Coal  mine.     Indian  sites  in  vicinity. 
Yorkville — 

Old  Blackberry  mill. 


Zion  City — 

Zion  city  established   by   Dr.   John   Alexander  Dowie, 
"Founder  under   God." 

Shiloh  Tabernacle  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Apostolic 
Church  in  Zion. 

Home  of  Wilbur  Glenn  Voliva,  General  Overseer. 

Zion  Home.     Administration  Building.      Main  Educa- 
tional Building. 

Zion  Radio  Station,  WCBD. 

Hudson  Fruit  Farm,  near  town. 

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